List-maker extraordinaire Chloe Fong lives with her father in the small village of Wedgeford, known throughout Britain as home to a silly annual festival and an absent duke. Jeremy Yu, who regularly comes to Wedgeford for the festival, is that duke, but hasn't yet figured out how to tell his friends in the village that he owns the land they live on. He's particularly worried about how Chloe will handle the news, as he's been smitten with her since he's determined to ask her to marry him this year — despite her protestations at his very existence.
This could be a fairly standard historical romance novel, except for the setting in a multicultural small village and with Chinese or half-Chinese main characters. In an author's note at the end of the book, Milan discusses how she has incorporated the history of her grandmother into the story of Worchestershire sauce (created in England but as un-English a sauce as they come) and used it as the backdrop for what became an intriguing romance story. Really, in this book, the stories behind the romance are what really make it stand out.
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